Firm and Provider News

Patrick C. Dunican Jr., managing director of the Newark, NJ-based firm of Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, P.C., recently announced the opening of a Philadelphia office and the naming of veteran Philadelphia lawyer David W. Marston and Gibbons director Timothy S. Susanin to lead the effort. The firm's new office is located at One Logan...

John J. Koeppel, an attorney inthe Buffalo office of NixonPeabody LLP, has been appointedChair of the Corporation Law Committee of the Bar Association of Erie County.
Mr. Koeppel is an attorney in the Business Practice Group of Nixon Peabody, and is assigned to the Private Equity Team and the Mergers and Acquisitions Team. He advises clients on...

Proskauer Rose LLP has announced that Christopher Wolf, a partner in the firm's Washington, DC office, has been named a recipient of the prestigious Burton Award for Legal Achievement. He was given the award in recognition of his article, Regulating Hate Speech Qua Speech Is Not The Solution To The Epidemic Of Hate On The Internet, which appeared in two...

Fox Rothschild LLP, a full-service law firm with offices in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and New York, has announced that it has joined with the West Palm Beach, FL firmof August, Kulunas, Dawson & Siegel, P.A., a nationally recognized boutique law firm specializing in federal and state taxation, estate planning and administration, and tax...

LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell, a leading client development company for the legal profession, has introduced Group Profiles on martindale.com, a new web-only marketing tool that allows law firms to add detailed overviews of their various practice areas or industry groups to the firm's martindale.com listing.
Martindale.com, which is powered by the...

Corporation Service Company, a provider of litigation management, entity management, IP, corporate governance and compliance services for business and attorneys, and Tripoint Systems Development Corporation, a provider of strategic cost management, matter management and law department software applications, have announced the XML integration of CSC's...

Law firms and corporate legal departments are optimistic about adding staff in the coming year, a new survey shows. Fifty-five percent of attorneys surveyed said they would be augmenting their teams in the next 12 months. Intellectual property, corporate law, real estate and litigation were practice areas experiencing consistent growth.

Special Counsel, the legal workforce solutions unit of MPS Group, Inc., has announced that Marion Lutrin has joined Special Counsel to direct the expansion of its direct hire services in the key markets of New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC. Ms. Lutrin will work in conjunction with Jodi Nadler, vice president of Special Counsel, who will provide an...

Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham (K&LNG) has announced the opening of its newest office in Pal Alto, CA. With existing offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco, K&LNG's Palo Alto office will strengthen the firm's presence in California and will increase the firm's total number of offices to 12.
Also new to the firm are Jon Michaelson...

Workshare, the leading provider of Document Integrity applications, recently unveiled a series of new innovations for its DeltaView line, the world's most popular and successful software for document comparison. Workshare released the first piece of the new series: DeltaView PE. It is designed for small business and home office users to access the same...

Professionals involved in government affairs need to be one step ahead of the changing laws and regulations that can affect the organizations they represent. To ensure these professionals have access to the most current and authoritative information, Thomson West recently introduced a customized Government Affairs interface on Westlaw, the company's legal...

Former Congressman Vic Fazio (D-CA) has joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP as a senior adviser in Washington, DC, the firm has announced. He will advise clients on a range of public policy and government relations issues.

The international law firm of Chadbourne & Parke LLP assisted Brooklyn Remembers Inc., a New York City community non-profit group, in its successful efforts to erect a memorial to the Brooklyn victims of 9/11. The memorial was unveiled recently.

Epstein Becker & Green, P.C. (EBG) has announced that Carl G. Chernoff has joined the firm as of counsel in the firm's New York office.
Mr. Chernoff comes to EBG with 30 years of experience from The Hertz Corporation where he held several positions, first employed as senior staff corporate counsel, later promoted to staff vice president of employment...

Doreen James Wise, R.N., Ed.D., CEO of Medical Research Consultants (MRC) recently announced that MRC has been named a Primary Service Provider by the DuPont Company. The Dupont Legal Model is recognized for its innovative approach to litigation. By closely partnering with its outside Primary Law Firms and Service Providers, it can increase the quality of...

WolfBlock has announced the addition of two new partners and an associate to the firm's Delaware office. Formerly of the Wilmington office of Duane Morris, Thomas P. McGonigle and Shawn P. Tucker joined WolfBlock as partners and George J. Danneman joins the firm as an associate.
Mr. McGonigle is the managing partner of the Delaware office and is a member...

Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP partner Joseph J. McHale, has been selected to the International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC), the oldest and most prestigious international organization of attorneys representing corporations and insurers. The IADC's activities benefit not only the invitation only, peer-reviewed members and their clients...

Workshare, the leading provider of Document Integrity applications, recently unveiled a series of new innovations for its DeltaView line, the world's most popular and successful software for document comparison. Workshare released the first piece of the new series: DeltaView PE. It is designed for small business and home office users to access the same...